India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

We need to find means for cooperation.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.